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The Flying Missile (1950) Columbia
Director: Henry Levin
Screenplay:Richard English, James Gunn, from a story by Harvey S. Haislip & N. Richard Nash
Cast: Glenn Ford (CommanderBill A. Talbott), Viveca Lindfors, Carl Benton Reid, Henry O'Neill 
Viveca Lindfors, Glenn Ford A war drama that addressed itself to the subject of guided missiles. GF plays asubmarine commander who belives these weapons can be successfully launched from an undersea craft, and has little time to prove it to the big brasses.
Glenn fitted the role perfectly but had very little support from the indifferent rest of the cast and the director.
Convicted (1950) Columbia
Director: Henry Levin
Screenplay: William Bowers, Fred Niblo jr., Seton I. Miller
Cast: Glenn Ford (Joe Hufford) Broderick Crawford, Dorothy Malone, Millard Mitchell, Carl Benton Reid, Will Geer, Ed Begley. 
Dorothy Malone, Broderick Crawford, Glenn Ford Remake of Howard Hawks "Criminal Code"(1931) with GF fighting to prove his innocence helped by warden Crawford and his daughter (Malone). Over familiarity with the predictable material robbed the film of any surprise value. 
Follow the Sun (1951) Twentieth Century-Fox
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Screenplay: Frederick Hazlitt Brennan
Cast: Glenn Ford (Ben Hogan) Anne Baxter, Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc, Roland Winters 
Glenn Ford, Dennis O'Keefe Golf afficionados will be amused by this fictionalized biopic of enigmatic golf champ Ben Hogan (GF). Anne Baxter is wasted playing the ever-supportive wife indispensable in such undertaking. Another minor entry in Ford's filmography.
The Green Glove (1952) United Artists
Director: Rudolph Mate
Screenplay: Charles Bennett
Cast: Glenn Ford (Michael Blake), Geraldine Brooks, Cedric Hardwicke, George Macready, Gaby Andre, Jany Holt, Juliette Greco,
A French co-production 
Ex-paratrooper GF return to France after WWII with his girlfriend to find medieval gem-laden religious artifact, becoming involved in murder and mayhem. Good supporting cast and charming leads make the fast paced thriller very entertaining.
Alexander Scourby, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford 
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The White Tower (1950) RKO
Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Screenplay:
Cast: Glenn Ford (Martin Ordway), Lloyd Bridges, Alida Valli Lloyd Bridges, Alida Valli, Glenn Ford On loan to RKO, GF partecipate in this action drama.
The struggle to conquer a killer Alpine peak brings out the best and the worst in the usual mixed bunch of mountaineers. 
Alida Valli and Glenn Ford
The Redhead and the Cowboy (1950) Paramount Pictures
Director: Leslie Fenton
Screenplay:Jonathan Latimer & Liam O'Brien
Cast: Glenn Ford (Gil Kyle), Rhonda Fleming, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Reed,
Action-packed Civil War Western with dance-hall girl Fleming acting as Confederate courier. Along the way, she gets apolitical cowboy GF involved in her cause and a lot of troubles. A moderately successful film.
The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) Twentieth Century- Fox
Director: Michael Gordon
Screenplay: Oscar Saul from a story by Anna Hunger
Cast: Glenn Ford (Jim Canfield),Gene Tierney, Zachary Scott,Ethel Barrymore, Ann Dvorak, Barbara Bates, Cyril Cusack, Jeanette Nolan 
Glenn Ford,Gene Tierney Set in 1870s California,this Western has a group of escaped prisoners led by GF hide out at a settlement comprised largely of women. Fine cast makes the most of the script and Gene Tierney is beautiful as Glenn's love interest.
(above)Gene Tierney, Glenn Ford
(below)Gene Tierney, Glenn Ford, Ethel Barrymore 
Young Man with Ideas (1952) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay:Ben Barzman & Arthur Sheekman
Cast: Glenn Ford (Maxwell Webster),Ruth Roman, Denise Darcel,Nina Foch, Donna Corcoran 
Denise Darcel, Glenn Ford Another light comedy in which GF plays a kind of role he virtually copyrighted, an eager-beaver, accident-prone lawyer moving with his family from Montana to California.
A modest but pleasant comedy-drama
Affair in Trinidad (1952) Columbia
Director: Vincent Sherman
Screenplay: Oscar Saul & James Gunn from a story by Virginia Van Upp & Berne Giler
Cast: Glenn Ford (Steve Emery), Rita Hayworth, Alexander Scourby, Torin Thatcher, Howard Wendell, Karel StepaneK, Juanita Moore 
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford They did it again. The Hayworth-Ford chemistry strikes sparks as torch singer and brother-in-law hunting down the murderer of her husband. In spite of the memories of" Carmen" and the critics poor notices, the film was one of the top grossing pictures of 1952, outstripping"Gilda" at the box-office by over a million dollars, proving all over again that a star is a star an giving Ford's sagging career a welcome boost.
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